Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old on June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during…
Jackie Collins’ sex novel The Bitch became a sex movie starring sexy sister Joan Collins. Author Jackie Collins: Surprisingly few film & TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins,…
Lucille Ball in Easy to Wed. Cate Blanchett to play Lucille Ball: Actress won Oscar for incarnating Ball’s fellow RKO contract player Katharine Hepburn Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is…
Olivia de Havilland. Labor relations’ history-making ‘Gone with the Wind’ star and two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland turns 99 Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Olivia de…
First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings in ‘The Last Command.’ First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings, first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM First Best Actor…
Honorary Award non-recipient Marlene Dietrich. Honorary Award: Academy ‘snubbed’ Gloria Swanson & Rita Hayworth + Marlene Dietrich & dozens of other women (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars: Doris Day &…
Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’ Joan Lorring dead at 88: ‘The Corn Is Green’ performer was one of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories Best Supporting…
Bette Davis’ eyes keep Watch on the Rhine. Bette Davis’ eyes are watching everything and everyone on Turner Classic Movies this evening, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the…
Humphrey Bogart, Old Hollywood’s most revered tough guy, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day this Wednesday as TCM continues its “Summer Under the Stars” film series. (See further…
Lilli Palmer in Beware of Pity: Paraplegic baroness discovers the difference between pity and love in purported Soviet Union box office hit. German-born Lilli Palmer (1914–1986) never quite became a…
Ann Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was…
Errol Flynn, Roman Bohnen, Ann Sheridan are anti-Nazi fighters in Lewis Milestone’s World War II drama Edge of Darkness (1943) Eleven Errol Flynn movies and a 2005 documentary about the…
Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas (top). The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (bottom). From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial…
Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino, one of the top Warner Bros. stars of the 1940s, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Thursday, Aug. 27. More than a second-rank…
Ann Savage: the 1940s glamour look. Unlike Joan Bennett, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, Veronica Lake, Jane Greer, Claire Trevor, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, and other so-called film noir…
Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s…
Ann Sheridan. If someone asked me to name a truly tough film star, I’d never think of naming John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, or any…
Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman,…
Marc Lawrence. Prolific actor was usually cast as gangster and other assorted scuzzy characters, making life difficult for just about everybody, from Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake to Humphrey Bogart…
Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
Cary Grant in ‘I Was a Male War Bride’: Classic gender-bending comedy. Cary Grant films on TCM: Gender-bending comedy classic ‘I Was a Male War Bride,’ reactionary adventure flick ‘Gunga…
Hattie McDaniel. Hattie McDaniel: First black performer to win an Academy Award One of the best and, despite nearly 100 film appearances, most poorly utilized actresses of the studio era…
Pinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress…
Claude Rains, one of the finest actors of the studio era – in fact, one of the finest film actors of the 20th century – is Turner Classic Movies’ Star…
Car racing movie? Not exactly, but Dorothy Malone respects no speed limits in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. May 8 highlights on Turner Classic Movies: John Frankenheimer’s car racing epic,…
Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…